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Monday, 14 December 2009

This weekend's upgrades took rather longer than anticipated, and led to a few teething problems this morning, however all are now straightened out (and as always, if anything is not working right for you, please tell us).
We have quite a few new features :

Our API has been expanded to permit upload and management of templates and campaigns.

DKIM is now used for all messages, including administrative subscribe/unsubscribe notifications.

Friday, 11 December 2009

We have some planned maintenance this weekend starting on Saturday 13th December at 15:00 GMT and lasting for several hours. Image serving, click and open tracking will continue as normal, but sending will not be available, and our web interface will be closed.
We're making some changes to our database that will result in even better performance, a whole bunch of new features (API and UI enhancements), and a better foundation for future development.

We're happy to announce that full DKIM support is now fully enabled for all our customers.
There are two levels of signing available; If you make our public key available in your DNS using the 'sm' selector, we'll sign using that for fully-authenticated email. Failing that, we sign it as an intermediary, which doesn't carry as much weight, but every little helps.
For a guide on what DKIM is all about, why you should be using it and how to set it up, see the entry in our help wiki. Don't forget to add your signing domains to your account on the smartmessages settings page one you've set up your DNS.
A big upside to DKIM is that messages signed with it (even as an intermediary) are eligible for Yahoo!'s feedback loop, and we now support spam report handling from all Yahoo! domains (.com, .co.uk, .fr, .in etc), plus other domains that they handle email for, including some important UK ISPs talk21.com, btinternet.com and others.